Device for operating window-shades



A. 11. MILLER. DEVICE FOR OPERATING WINDOW SHADES.

(No Model.)

Patented Apr. 26', 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AARON D. MILLER, OF UNION CITY, INDIANA.

DEVICE FOR OPERATING WINDOW-SHADES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,710, dated April 1387- Application filed October 16, 1886. Serial No. 216,404. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON D. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Union City, in the county of Randolph and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Operating VVindo\v-Shades; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures ofireference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to improvements in window-curtain fixtures; and it consists in the construction, novel arrangement, and adaptation of devices, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims appended.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a window-casing, showing my improvements applied. Fig. 2 is a face view of the same, showing the spring-roller carrying the curtain, with one end attached to one of the sliding brackets and its opposite end in a position to be placed in the other bracket. Fig. 3 is a view in elevation of the upper roller and its adjustable spools, and Fig. 4 views of the brackets removed.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, A indicates a window-easing, which may be of any ordinary construction.

B B indicate guide-rods for the curtainbrackets. These rods are vertically disposed and arranged one on each side of the window.

The said guide-rods are of a length sufficient to allow the curtain to be carried to the top of the window and dropped to the bottom, or nearly so, thereof, and are round in cross-section, so as to allow the brackets to be swung laterally thereon when it is desirable to remove and replace the curtain. The curtainroller 0 may be any of the well-known forms of spring-curtains, such as the Hartshorn Roller. This roller 0 is attached to the bracket D by means of a screw or other similar device,

ends of the said flattened portion, to prevent the same from accidental displacement in its bearing in the bracket E, the said bracket having a slot, a, formed with parallel vertical sides to engage the flat sides of the rod, and the slot is enlarged at its upper end for the introduction of the outer head or shouldered portion of said rod' therein. Thus it will be seen that when one end of the roller is attached to one of the brackets by a screw, as described, the opposite bracket may be swung outwardly on its guide-rod, as shown more fully in Fig. 2, until the opposite end of the roller is brought into proper position, when the rod of the same may be placed in the slot of the bracket E. The curtain will then be held in proper operative position and the brackets prevented from moving laterally.

F indicates a roller or rod, which is supported in suitable bearings, 19, arranged in the upper'part of the window-casing, as shown. This rod or roller is designed to be removable in its bearings and is normally held therein by spools, as will be presently explained.

H G indicate spools, the latter of which is a double spool. These spools are provided with annular flanges, designed to serve as guards for the winding-cords, and are respectively provided with a hub or extension, d, having a radial threaded aperture, e, opening into the bore of the spools to receive the locking-screw I. One of the flanges of each spool is perforated transversely near its base, (shown at 9,) and the winding and adjusting cords J J are secured to these spools by simply passing them through the said apertures g and tying a knot in one end thereof, the opposite ends of the cords being secured to the sliding brackets. This construction affords a cheap and ready means for adjusting the curtainroller and curtain or brackets on the guiderods. Should one of the cords be slightly greater in length than the other, which may result in attaching the same, or from stretching after use, it will be seen that such may be obviated by simply loosening the screw g on the desired spool, and after adjusting the same about its axis on the rod to take up or let out its cord, tightening the screw again, when the curtain-brackets and curtain will move evenly and uniformly on the guide-rods.

The spools are secured upon the rod F ad ICO jacent to the inner sides of the bearings of the latter, so as to prevent the same from being withdrawn or displaced.

K indicates the operating-cord, which is attached to the outer flange of the double spool in a manner similar to those of the curtaincords, and the opposite end of this cord is,

been carried to the desired location, the same may be held therein by the attachment of the cord with the holder L, when the curtain may be rolled and unrolled without raising orlowering its roller or stick, as before described.

Having described this invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, isl 1. The combination of the vertically-movable and laterally-swinging brackets'D 11], adapted to support a curtain-roller, as specified, the upper rod or roller, F, provided with spools, and the set-screws fastening these spools to said roller, and the suspensioncords, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a curtain-roller, of brackets adapted to swing laterally on rods B, the bracket D, having an eye, a, and the bracket E, having a slotted aperture, a, the suspension-cords J a roller, F, and spools which are adjustable circularly thereon, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

, AARON l). MILLER.

\Vitnesses:

Gno. W. REITENOUR, CYRUS W'ooDBURY. 

